Setting the standard for Brazilian materials science
How Inmetro – Brazil's standards lab – benefits from a bunker mentality
Boosting innovation in Brazil
Physics World talks to one of the bosses of the main funding agency in the country's second-largest state
Why electricity grids fail, what to do if your PhD is stolen, and what is a 'Suris tetron'?
Excerpts from the Red Folder
BOSS uses 164,000 quasars to map expanding universe
Most precise measurement made, with only 2% uncertainty
Why axing practicals from science exams is a bad idea
Reforms to A-level physics prompt concern
A possible dark-matter bubble
Source of excess gamma rays at the galactic centre
Cakes that are out of this world, what’s on Andre Geim’s iPod and who’s the April fool?
Excerpts from the Red Folder
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Physics World Special Report: Brazil
Find out about the challenges and opportunities for physicists in the world's fifth biggest nation
How can you give yourself time to think?
Felicity Mellor calls for silence in the April 2014 issue of Physics World
Silence the ping: astronomers urge 24-hour microwave-oven ban
Gigahertz blackout could lead to definitive detection of gravitational waves